MathML fonts

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Sun, 18 Sep 2005, Michael A. Peters wrote:

> On Sun, 2005-09-18 at 11:08 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>> On Sun, 18 Sep 2005, Michael A. Peters wrote:
>>
>>> Inspired by the earlier thread today on Mozilla and MathML I have put
>>> together two spec files to aide people in the installation of the
>>> MathType and Mathematica fonts:
>>>
>>> http://mpeters.us/fc_extras/mathematica_ttf.spec
>>> http://mpeters.us/fc_extras/mathtype_ttf.spec
>>>
>>> The necessary source files (that contain the fonts) can be downloaded
>>> from the URL field of the specfile. Of course you don't need to make
>>> rpm's, but making rpms makes it easier to install on a bunch of machines
>>> (especially if you run a private yum repo)
>>>
>>> Those fonts combined with the mathml-fonts from Fedora Extras should
>>> provide the fonts needed to view MathML in Firefox (and the pango thing
>>> mentioned by Eric Tanguy in the other thread).
>>
>> Thanks, these are helpful.  A couple of minor suggestions:

One more aesthetic suggestion: I'd use hypens rather than underscores in 
the RPM names.  Most RPMs seem to do it that way, so it would obey the 
principle of least surprise.

>>
>> (1) http://www.mozilla.org/projects/mathml/fonts/ recommends the
>> Mathematica 4.1 fonts over the 4.2 fonts pretty strongly for this
>> application.
>
> Hey - didn't notice that.
> Wonder what the issue is.

Couldn't find an explanation.  I wonder if it's a licensing thing.

>
>>
>> (2) I know unzip is commonly included in FC installs, but it should still
>> be a BuildRequires for the Mathematica spec.
>
> Yup - you are right.
>
>>
>> (3) How does one make a nosrc.rpm from these?
>
> The spec files are set up already for that with the NoSource tag.
> Just put the source where it goes - and rpmbuild the spec file.
>
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 		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
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